Brooklyn Mirage Unveils Venue Redesign Ahead of Stacked Summer Season – EDM.com

Rendering of the 2022 redesign of The Brooklyn Mirage

New York’s biggest dance music venue is getting a fresh look for a stacked summer season. Avant Gardner‘s founder, owner and Chief Creative Officer, Billy Bildstein spearheaded an ambitious redesign of the already-stunning Brooklyn Mirage. […]

Jörg Thomasius: Acht Gesänge der schwarzen Hunde review – groundbreaking electronics from East Germany | Music

Jörg Thomasius: Acht Gesänge Der Schwarzen Hunde album cover art

Cassette culture may now seem like some quaint hipster affectation but, for a generation growing up in East Germany in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was the prime medium for […]

Amelie Lens’ Exhale Records Releases Charity Compilation to Aid Humanitarian Efforts In Ukraine – EDM.com

Amelie Lens' Exhale Records Releases Charity Compilation to Aid Humanitarian Efforts In Ukraine - EDM.com

The residents of Exhale Records are coming together to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine with a charity compilation, Together For Ukraine! Helmed by Amelie Lens, the Belgium-based imprint has assembled a team of techno stalwarts for a […]

Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer, dies aged 74 | Music

Schulze circa 1972.

Klaus Schulze, the German multi-instrumentalist whose work with drones, pulses and synthesisers was hugely influential on generations of electronic music makers, has died aged 74. Frank Uhle, managing director of Schulze’s label SVP, wrote: “We […]

Hardwell Announces World Tour and New Album: Watch His Full Ultra 2022 Comeback Set – EDM.com

ultra music festival 2022 hardwell

And just like that, Hardwell is back. Fresh off a historic comeback set at the 2022 edition of Ultra Music Festival, the Dutch dance music icon has doubled down by announcing a world tour in support of […]

Southern Gothic Mystery ‘Norco’ Is a Masterful Meditation on Place

Screenshot of Norco game featuring character sitting on truck at sunset

for an indie video game, Norco has a decidedly unusual origin story. The point-and-click adventure wasn’t conceived as an entry to a game jam, nor was its nascent form labored over in a game design […]

A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ explained

Michelle Yeoh looks at her hands as Jamie Lee Curtis raises a fist in "Everything Everywhere All At Once."

From IRS audits to sentient rocks to hot dog hands and beyond, the mundane and the inane collide with the profound in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Michelle Yeoh A24 action sci-fi pic that’s […]

The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia at Coachella review – a patchy double-act | Coachella

Steve Angello, Axwell, and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia

When Kanye West dramatically pulled out of his headline Sunday slot just two weeks ago, without a reason, few people could have predicted his replacement. A landmark rock act, perhaps? An unexpected pop maven? Nope, […]

Swedish House Mafia to Host First-Ever Real-Time DJ Set on Spotify

Swedish House Mafia Spotify Live DJ set

Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify is teaming up with Swedish House Mafia for a live DJ set from the Coachella Valley desert on Spotify Live. Late night on April 15, Spotify is hosting an exclusive event […]

‘My mother thought I’d ruined my life’: how EMF made Unbelievable | Culture

‘We were in our late teens and thought we were invincible’: EMF in 1990.

James Atkin, singer Ian [Dench, guitarist] was the genius behind Unbelievable. I just sang and looked pretty. Derry [Brownson, sampler], Zac [Foley, bass] and I had the idea for EMF, but we didn’t have much […]